COPA Chiro is Europe's number one event for chiropractors and practice owners seeking new ideas and opportunities to grow their practice and expand their professional knowledge.

Built on leading industry knowledge and expert insight, the show is peerless in the level of education, advice, and opportunity it provides chiropractic professionals, and presents an essential platform for the future success of chiropractic practices everywhere.

COPA Physio is the principal exhibition for physiotherapists and practice owners looking for the ideas and opportunities to grow their business and advance their professional development.

With education, information, and advice at the heart of the show, COPA Physio is a distinguished platform in the service it provides physiotherapists in helping their professional careers flourish.

COPA Osteo is the most comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the advancement of professional knowledge and practice growth in the field of osteopathy.

Join the country’s most influential osteopathy professionals and business authorities and benefit from the most innovative therapy education, advice, and business growth ideas from around the globe.

COPA Podiatry is the branch of Rehab World Series dedicated to therapy innovation and practice growth in podiatry.

Packed with leading industry knowledge, professional opinion leaders, and business experts, the show breaks new ground in providing education, knowledge, and professional development opportunities to podiatrists and practice owners.

COPA Prosthetics & Orthotics is the leading event for the most innovative medical, clinical, rehabilitation, technical, educational, and research aspects of prosthetics and orthotics.

The show has been engineered to be the most comprehensive event around and will provide two days of essential information, advice, guidance, and opportunity, and is a platform for the innovation transforming prosthetics and orthotics.

COPA Series is split across these 5 sectors.

When Is The Show?

8th to 9th May 2019, ExCeL London

Doors: Wed - 9:30AM - 5:30PM Thu - 9:30AM - 4:30PM

Kevin Young

Health Professions Acupuncture Group (HePAG)

Kevin Young graduated from the University of Westminster with a BSc (Hons) TCM: Acupuncture and a Diploma in Tui-na. He is a State Registered and Chartered Physiotherapist (MCSP), qualified in sports therapy and sports massage, specialising in the treatment of sports injuries with Acupuncture. Additionally, he also has an MSc in Lower Limb Musculo-Skeletal Studies from Cardiff Met University.
Kevin works with sports teams, 20 years in rugby and more recently with professional boxers and practitioners of various martial arts (MMA). He is currently the principal physiotherapist for the charity Arthritis Action.
Kevin lectures at CICM Reading Traditional Acupuncture college (BSc program) in anatomy, structural diagnosis and tui-na. He also lectures on Sports Taping and Sports Acupuncture on a Master’s program at Cardiff
Met University. Additionally, he lectures at Glyndwr University, Wrexham on Tui Na, Lower Limb and running Mechanics. He has a special interest in lower-limb injuries, and treating tendinopathies with Traditional Chinese Medicine.

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Acupuncture & the Managment of Sports Injuries

In this presentation, Kevin will discuss current acupuncture treatments of Sports & tendon injury, including an introduction to treatment principles and techniques. Kevin will discuss the use of acupuncture with Sports injuries. How he has used acupuncture as an extra tool for treating injuries within Rugby, Professional boxing and Mixed Martial Arts as well as many other sports. Discuss the recent relevant research for and against the use of acupuncture. We will explore and discuss different needling techniques and treatment principles used with various injuries.

Kevin has worked extensively in sports medicine for 20 years, and, like many therapists, battled in the search to find successful ways to deal with sports & tendon injuries, whether acute, chronic or ruptured. Studying acupuncture opened up new concepts and understanding of Sports Injury and tendon injuries for him. Using a fusion of Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment principles, he now relishes every opportunity to bring to bear his combined skills in the treatment of Sports Injuries and tendinopathies.